Thursday, October 31, 2013

Solar systems are being
installed at hundreds of schools across the United States. Educators use solar
panels to teach students about the “miracle” of energy sourced from the sun.
But a closer look at these projects shows poor economics and a big bill for citizens.

Earlier this month, the
National Resources Defense Fund (NRDC) launched its “Solar
Schools” campaign, an effort to raise $54,000 to help “three to five
to-be-determined schools move forward with solar rooftop projects.” The NRDC
wants to “help every school in the country go solar.” The campaign uses a cute video
featuring kids talking about how we’re “polluting the Earth with gas and coal”
and how we can save the planet with solar…..Keep reading →

In early September, the COS Project began searching the
country for citizens who recognized the brokenness of D.C. and were ready to be
a part of the solution. Since the release of its Volunteer Leadership
Application, the Grassroots Team has reviewed hundreds of names. Each
application highlights a common desire to serve the nation and defend its
freedoms for future generations.

We are excited to announce that twenty-six states now
have active leadership in place.

One recently-appointed leader explained, “I don’t want to
take the chance of sitting aside thinking that perhaps someone else will jump
in and do it – and then not have it happen. So I am putting myself out there
and am offering my time and my talents to help get this going.” Every day,
citizens, no longer willing to sit on the sidelines, stand up and take tangible
steps to return rightful power back to the states…..To Read More…. Editor's Note:This was in an e-mail from Patriot Update. "In Federalist Number 57, James Madison wrote that Congress "can make no law which will not have its
full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of
the society." As wise an idea as this was, Madison and the other Framers
failed to expressly incorporate such a limit on government within the
Constitution itself. With lawmakers today passing laws while exempting
themselves, their families, and their friends - think: Obamacare - it's clear
that we need to codify the principle of Federalist No. 57 into law."Personally I believe that repealing the 16th and 17th amendments is the simplest way. Once that happens all else will fall into place.

Columbus, OH -
The Ohio Supreme Court today granted the 1851 Center's Motion to Expedite its
lawsuit challenging administrative Obamacare Medicaid Expansion in Ohio, setting
a briefing schedule that will have the merits of the case submitted to the Court
by no later than December 1.

The Motion
granted asserts that the action is likely to prevail, and that dire budgetary
consequences could ensue should the case not be decided prior to January 1,
2014.

The October 22
legal action is filed on behalf of State Representatives Matt Lynch, Ron Young,
Andy Thompson, Ron Maag, John Becker, and Ron Hood, and Cleveland Right to Life
and Right to Life of Greater Cincinnati. These representatives and groups
combine to represent nearly 1 million Ohioans.

The action
asserts that in accepting jurisdiction over and passing the Governor's proposed
Medicaid spending, the Controlling Board exceeded its legal authority by acting
inconsistently with the intent of the Ohio General Assembly. Specifically:

R.C.
127.17 states: "The Controlling Board shall take no action which does not carry
out the legislative intent of the general assembly regarding program goals and
levels of support of state agencies as expressed in the prevailing appropriation
acts of the general assembly."

The Ohio General
Assembly first removed Governor Kasich's proposed expansion of Medicaid spending
from the state budget bill, and then inserted a prohibition against the
expansion and spending.

Article II of
the Ohio Constitution requires that the legislature, rather than administrative
boards such as the Controlling Board, make major policy decisions.

In a 1980
challenge to the Controlling Board, the Ohio Supreme Court held that the
Controlling Board's authority is only constitutional because it must adhere to
the intentions of the General Assembly, and because of "the availability of
mandamus relief" through the High Court.

This appeared here and I would like to thank Alan for allowing me to publish his work. RK

While Americans grapple with
the Obamacare debacle and 90 million are officially unemployed according to the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, there is another threat to our future as
environmental groups like the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth continue
their assault on the provision of electrical energy, the lifeblood of the
nation’s economy and our ability to function at home and on the job.

Recently, Sierra Club members
were told that they, “supporters, partners, and allies have worked tirelessly
to retire 150 coal-fired power plants since January 2010—a significant number
in the campaign to move the country beyond dirty and outdated fossil fuels.”

Co

al, oil and natural gas are
labeled “dirty” for propaganda purposes, but what the Sierra Club and others do
not tell you and will never tell you is that they account for most of the
electricity generated in America, along with nuclear and hydropower. Wind and
solar power provide approximately 3% of the electricity and require government
subsidies and mandates to exist. Their required use drives up the cost of
electricity to consumers.

Among the many ongoing
lawsuits that the Sierra Club is pursuing is one against Navajo coal mining,
the Keystone XL pipeline, one seeking penalties for “ongoing violations” at
Montana’s Colstrip power plant. They filed a suit against the power rate
increase for Mississippi’s Kemper County coal plant.

In early October, The Wall
Street Journal published an article, “Mississippi
Plant Shows the Cost of ‘Clean Coal’.” It is testimony to the nonsense
about “clean coal.” The plant, the reporters note, was meant to demonstrate
that Mississippi Power Company’s Kemper County plant was “meant to showcase
technology for generating clean energy from low-quality coal” but it “ranks as
one of the most expensive U.S. fossil fuel projects ever—at $4.7 billion and
rising.”

“Mississippi Power’s 186,000
customers, who live in one of the poorest region of the country, are reeling
from double-digit rate increases,” adding that “the plant hasn’t generated a
single kilowatt for customers…”

Seven power plants in Pennsylvania
are under attack by the Sierra Club and EarthJustice which have filed a federal
lawsuit. The U.S.
Chamber of Commerce has exposed this common practice by environmental
groups to “sue and settle.”

“It works like this.
Environmental and consumer advocacy groups file a lawsuit claiming that the
federal government has failed to meet a deadline or has not satisfied some
regulatory requirement. The agency can then either choose to defend itself
against the lawsuit or settle it. Often times, it settles by putting in place a
‘court-ordered’ regulation desired by the advocacy group, thus circumventing
the proper rulemaking channels and basic transparency and accountability standards.”

High on the list of
government agencies that engage in this is the Environmental Protection Agency,
but others include Transportation, Agriculture, and Defense, along with the
Fish & Wildlife Service, and the Army Corps of Engineers. One recent victory
touted by Friends of the Earth is an EPA air pollution regulation is one that
affects ships navigating along the coasts of the United States and Canada, out
to 200 nautical miles, to “significantly reduce their emissions.”

Like the touted benefits of
wind and solar power, “clean coal” is another environmental myth that is
costing billions. Recently, the Global
Warming Foundation reported that “The world invested almost a billion
dollars a day in limiting global warming last year, but the total figure--$359
billion—was slightly down on last year, and barely half the $700 billion per
year that the World Economic Forum has said is needed to tackle climate
change.” The report cited was generated by the Climate Policy Initiative.

The problem with this is that
there is NO global warming. The Earth is in a perfectly natural cooling cycle
and has been for 15 to 16 years at this point. The notion of spending any money
on “climate change” is insanity. The climate is largely determined by the Sun
and other natural factors over which mankind has no control. The claim that
carbon dioxide is a contributing factor to climate has been decisively debunked
despite the years of lies emanating from the United Nations Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change. Indeed, during the current cooling cycle, the amount
of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen!

For all their caterwauling
about fossil fuels, environmental groups have resisted the expansion of the use
of nuclear power that emits no so-called “greenhouse gas” emissions. The
Friends of the Earth recently declared that “The quickest way to end our costly
fossil fuel dependency is through energy efficiency and renewable power, not
new (nuclear) reactors that will suck up precious investment and take years to
complete.”

The Obama administration’s
record of bad loans to companies providing renewable power—wind and solar—is
testimony to the waste of billions of taxpayer dollars. In September, the
Department of Energy made $66 million in green-energy subsidies to 33
companies, half of it to companies by a single venture capital firm with close
ties to the White House.

The continued loss of
coal-fired plants has reduced their provision of electricity from over 50% to
around 47%. The resistance to the construction of nuclear facilities slows the
replacement of their loss, but plants utilizing natural gas have benefitted
greatly from the discovery of billions of cubic feet through the use of
hydraulic fracking technology holds the promise of maintaining the nation’s
needs. Need it be said that “fracking” has become a target of environmental
organizations?

Environmental organizations
are the enemies of energy in America and worldwide. Without its provision third
world nations cannot develop and the ability to provide the energy America
needs is put in jeopardy.

By Alan CarubaThis appeared here and I would like to thank Alan for allowing me to publish his work. RK

If you live in California, I have a bit of advice. Get
out now while you can afford the gas to load up the van and head north or east.
You won’t be alone.

According to “Crazifornia: How California is Destroying
Itself and Why It Matters to America”, about 150,000 Californians have been
fleeing the state each year of late. “In fact,” wrote Laer Pearce, “Los Angeles
alone has lost more households than New York, Miami, and, incredibly, the economically
decimated city of Detroit…combined.”

The tide of traffic leaving the state is likely to
increase. According to a news release from Earthjustice, one of the innumerable
environmental organizations bent on destroying every form of energy that has
fueled the growth of the American economy, the California Public Utilities
Commission (PUC) has “finalized a groundbreaking decision to build innovative
high-tech energy storage systems that will lead California toward a future of
clean, renewable energy and away from dependence on fossil fuels.”

You remember fossil fuels, oil, natural gas, and coal.
The “clean, renewable” energies are wind and solar because, of course, the sun
shines all the time and the wind blows all the time. Or not.

By definition, energy “storage systems” can use
mechanical, chemical, or thermal processes to store energy; these processes
range from battery technologies to energy storage within compressed air or
molten salt. If that sounds bizarre, it is.

According to Will Rostov, an Earthjustice attorney,
“Clean, renewable energy sources will shape our future, whether the dirty
antiquated fossil fuels industry likes it or not, so it’s excellent to see
California getting there first. It took years by environmental advocates and state
regulators to reach this point.”

Actually, Europe has been there for some time now. In
England’s Yorkshire Dales,
they’re tearing down four wind turbines that have been around for twenty years
and “have not worked in years.” Indeed, across Europe there is a lot of buyer’s
remorse for having embraced wind and solar. As Marc Morano, the editor of ClimateDepot.com, noted in an October 17
article, “Wind and solar mandates are breaking Europe’s electric utilities.”

“Last week the CEOs of Europe’s ten largest utilities
finally cried uncle and called for a halt to wind and solar subsidies. Short of
that, they want subsidies of their own. They want to be paid, in essence, not
to produce power.” Thanks to mandates to use electricity from wind and solar
Europe’s energy costs increased 17% for consumers and 21% for industry in the
last four years.

California, in addition to requiring comparable use of
wind and solar power while pushing to close coal-fired plants and keep some
nuclear plants shuttered, will require its utilities to purchase 1.3 megawatts
of “energy storage” power by 2020.

The San Jose Mercury News reported that “The
first-in-a-nation mandate is expected to spur innovation in emerging storage
technologies, from batteries to flywheels. Once large quantities of energy can
be stored, the electric grid can make better use of solar, wind and other
technologies that generate sporadically rather than in a steady flow, and can
better manage disruptions from unpredictable events such as storms and
wildfires.”

This is another very expensive Green pipedream that, like
other California initiatives, would prove impossible to achieve and will be
abandoned or ignored.

Since neither wind nor solar produce electricity in a
steady, predictable fashion that enables utilities to ensure a flow of
electricity to consumers, “energy storage” is the new, idiotic, alternative way
of providing electricity that has been in effect since Edison first invented
the turbines to produce it.

There is, simply put, no reason to require “energy
storage” if “dirty, antiquated fossil fuels” were used. Wind and solar provide
just over 3% of the electricity used in the U.S.

According to the Western Region Deputy Director of the
Sierra Club, Evan Gillespie, “Fossil fuels like natural gas are a dead end for
the people of California, the power companies, and the entire planet.” If you
listened to Strela Cervas, Coordinator at the California Environmental Justice
Alliance, fossil fuel use is a conspiracy against “low income communities and
communities of color overburdened by pollution, in particular from power
plants. California does not need any new gas-fired power plants.”

Those low income communities might not agree, along with
all the rest of the Californians, in the wake of the California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006. While California strives to save the state from a
warming that has not been occurring for more than 15 years, the new mandate
that 33% of the state’s energy come from wind and solar is estimated to cost
$114 billion, all of which will come out of the pockets of energy consumers.

According to Pearce, “Legislators, regulators, lawyers
and environmentalists have driven up the cost of doing business in the Golden
State until it has become 30% greater than in the neighboring states.” The
result of 40 years of anti-business (and anti-energy) policy has caused a
decline in the state’s standard of living. “California’s median household
income plummeted by 9%--nearly twice the national average between 2006 and
2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.”

This is the kind of environmental insanity that has been
at work at the federal level since Obama was elected in 2008. Billions have
been lost in loans to wind and solar
companies that went bankrupt within months and years. Think
Solyndra. Now apply that same insanity to the whole of the nation as the
administration continues its “war on coal” and actually laments the growing
access to natural gas and oil due to hydraulic fracking technology.

The U.S. will produce more oil than Saudi Arabia this
year. It has several centuries’ worth of affordable coal, scads of natural gas,
and could expand its nuclear power generation if it wanted.

California is leading the way as it drives out its
citizens and businesses, leaving behind only those too poor to leave; those
dependent on a range of welfare programs that “redistribute” money from “the
rich” and the middle class. They are turning the entire state into Detroit.

It is a war on the provision of electricity; the
lifeblood of the nation’s capacity to function.

The Justice and State departments are now citing a
year-old FBI investigation and a future criminal prosecution to block access to
survivors of last year’s Benghazi terror attack. In an Oct. 28 letter to Sen.
Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,the State Department’s Assistant Secretary for
Legislative Affairs, Julia Frifield, refers to "significant risks"
and "serious concerns about having the survivors of the attack submit to
additional interviews."

Graham has been asking since last year for the FBI’s
transcripts of interviews with State Department and CIA survivors who were
evacuated to Germany after the Sep.11 attack on the U.S. consulate.He and other Republicans believe the
transcripts will show the survivors told the FBI it was a terrorist attack and
made no mention of a video or anti-U.S. demonstration at the consulate.

This intelligence was likely available to the president,
his national security team and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who five days after
the assault blamed it on an anti-U.S. demonstration and inflammatory video."You can't hide behind a criminal
investigation," Graham told reporters during a news conference on Capitol
Hill. "That's not a good reason to deny the Congress witness statements 48
hours after the attack.”….To Read More….

Secretary of State John Kerry expressed his frustration Tuesday with the fact that even in the United States, “a very educated country,” there are those who do not recognize the urgency of combating global warming. Addressing the D.C. Greening Embassies Forum, which encourages the “greening” of foreign mission in Washington, Kerry took aim at those who challenge the notion that the science is settled when it comes to climate change.

“I am amazed after all these years that we’re still struggling here in a very educated country to get a lot of people to embrace and understand why this is not a matter of theory, a matter of mere policy, but a matter of urgency for life itself on the planet as we know it.”

Kerry said that 6,000 peer-reviewed reports say that “we [human beings] are responsible for what is happening, we are contributing to it very significantly through human choices.”
“Zero – zero peer-reviewed reports say no, or contribute to the theory of denial,” he added....To Read More....

My Take –Well…I have to agree with the statement that some Americans still don’t grasp the urgency of Global Warming, and they’re the stupid and corrupt still touting this nonsense. Kerry is soon to be 70 years old, and most likely has less than 20 years left, but he has been contemptible his entire life and nothing he says or does indicates he will finish out his years being anything different.

A leading British
climate scientist claims the current rate of decline in solar activity is such
that there is now a real risk of a ‘Little Ice Age’. The severe cold went hand
in hand with an exceptionally inactive sun, and was called the Maunder solar
minimum. Now a leading scientist from Reading University has told me that the
current rate of decline in solar activity is such that there’s a real risk of
seeing a return of such conditions. Following analysis of the data, Professor
Lockwood believes solar activity is now falling more rapidly than at any time
in the last 10,000 years. Based on his findings he’s raised the risk of a new
Maunder minimum from less than 10% just a few years ago to 25-30%. --Paul
Hudson, BBC Weather, 28 October 2013
The sun is ‘quietening’ really rapidly. We think it is actually quietening more
rapidly than at any time in the last 10,000 years. So this is a major change.
We think lower solar activity does seem to tie up with more cold winters in
central Europe and the UK. –- Professor Michael Lockwood, BBC TV 28 October 2013
Britain faces a new mini-Ice Age with decades of severe Siberian winters and
washout summers, an expert has warned. Professor Mike Lockwood, of Reading
University, said erratic and extreme weather patterns could be the norm in 20
years. He said the risk of harsh winters and wet miserable summers has gone up
to 25 to 30 per cent compared with 10 per cent a few years ago. Weakening
sunspot activity is to blame for a “major change” in the UK’s weather he told
BBC TV. Climatologist Dr Dennis Wheeler from Sunderland University, said: “When
we have had periods where the sun has been quieter than usual we tend to get
these much harsher winters.” --Nathan Rao, Daily Express, 28 October 2013
The previous lengthy period of low solar activity was the so-called Maunder
Minimum that occurred between about 1640 and 1710. This was coincident with a
cold climatic spell called the Little Ice Age. This was once thought to be
confined to North West Europe, then the Northern Hemisphere. However recent
research is showing this cold spell to be a global phenomenon. It would be fair
to say that no one knows why the Little Ice Age took place... It may be no
coincidence that estimates of the turn-around in solar activity from grand
maximum to decline might have occurred between 1985 – 95, and that global
annual average surface temperatures have been flat since 1997. --David
Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy
Foundation, 30 October 2013
Predictions that 2013 would see an upsurge in solar activity and geomagnetic
storms disrupting power grids and communications systems have proved to be a
false alarm. Instead, the current peak in the solar cycle is the weakest for a
century. Subdued solar activity has prompted controversial comparisons with the
Maunder Minimum, which occurred between 1645 and 1715, when a prolonged absence
of sunspots and other indicators of solar activity coincided with the coldest
period in the last millennium. The comparisons have sparked a furious exchange
of views between observers who believe the planet could be on the brink of
another period of cooling, and scientists who insist there is no evidence that
temperatures are about to fall. In all fairness, Russian scientists have warned
over a decade ago that the Earth will enter a mini ice age period. --MINA News, 19 September 2013
The sun is acting bizarrely and scientists have no idea why. Solar activity is
in gradual decline, a change from the norm which in the past triggered a
300-year-long mini ice age. The fall-off in sunspot activity still has the
potential to affect our weather for the worse, Dr Elliott said. Research by
Prof Mike Lockwood at the University of Reading showed how low solar activity
could alter the position of the jet stream over the north Atlantic, causing
severe cold during winter months. This was likely the cause of the very cold
and snowy winters during 2009 and 2010, Dr Elliott said. “It all points to
perhaps another little ice age,” he said. “It seems likely we are going to
enter a period of very low solar activity and could mean we are in for very
cold winters.” -- Dick Ahlstrom, The Irish Times, 12 July 2013
The Little Ice Age appears to have affected the climate powerfully. IPCC-leaning
scientists, however, say that the Little Ice Age couldn't have been caused by
solar variability - not even solar variability combined with sky-darkening
volcanic eruptions - as the effects would have been too weak. A Swiss team of
researchers now say that in fact the Little Ice Age most certainly could have
been triggered by variations in the Sun. --Lewis Page, The Register, 1 October 2013

It’s hard to maintain monopoly status in a free market
when you have to deal with all that competition and whatnot.

Between other companies’ low prices and new, updated
products entering the market each day, it’s almost like Rich Uncle Pennybags is
a thing of the past. But fret not!

The politicians of the world would like to offer anyone
dead set on controlling an entire industry the chance to shine. So come one,
come all — government agencies, cronies, and all their friends — as we present
the five best ways to create a monopoly and to ensure you never have to compete
again.1. Regulations….2. Subsidies….3. Nationalization….4. Tariffs…..5. Intellectual property…..To Read More…

Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Robert Menendez,
D-N.J., want us to believe a simple progressive fairy tale that we have been
hearing ad naseum for years now: the government couldn’t possibly
abuse its power to silence political opponents.

On Wednesday afternoon, Sens. Menendez and Warren are
holding a press conference to encourage the
Securities and Exchange Commission to require disclosure of all political
activity from publicly traded companies. Currently, public corporations aren’t
required to disclose any “non-material” political activity.

In reality, this is a push to discourage corporations
from exercising their right of free speech and political association. After
all, since corporations are already banned from making direct contributions to
federal candidates, the proposed measure forces corporations to publicly
disclose their support to non-profit organizations such as trade associations
and 501(c)(4)s…..To Read More…..

While at a conference where participants discussed the
wannabe social engineers cum urbanists’ war on automobility and housing
affordability, Jane Brody’s broadside against
Americans’ “dependence on automobiles” and suburban living was published by the
New York Times. Brody, unlike her Times colleague Michael
Pollan, isn’t a complete and total kook when it
comes to agricultural biotechnology, and she is one of the more thoughtful
nutrition writers in America. Unfortunately, Brody has fallen for one of the
popular but incorrect urban elitist tropes about cars and the suburbs.

Long commutes
are killing us!Urban cores are
healthier than the suburbs! Low-density living is just fattening us up for
self-slaughter!

Scary stuff, just in time for Halloween! But the
“evidence” supporting such fear mongering ranges from flimsy to nonexistent…..To Read More…..

My Take - In the course of my 67 years I have watched coffee go from terrible to wonderful and back again. Most of every scare or outrage you read about is claptrap. Here is the definitive answer. In 1946 the world's population was approximately 2 billion people, and it took thousands of years to get to that number. In less than 75 years the world's population has soared to 7 billion, and more of those people are living longer than ever in history.

Tax
cheat[1]
New York Democrat Charles Rangel
claimed that no Republican voted for Social Security legislation when it came
up for a vote in 1935:“It should give you some small comfort to know that,
historically, the Republican Party always fought vigorously against these types
of programs,” Rangel said. “I don't think that one Republican voted for the
Social Security Act.”Rangel was trying to make the case that Republican
opposition to ObamaCare is similar to opposition to Social Security when it was
proposed.

House
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) corrected the aging
congressman. “In fact, the
1935 law establishing Social Security passed out of the House with
the support of 81 Republicans. Just 15 opposed it. On the Senate side, 16
Republicans voted for it, and five voted against.”

When Social Security was first implemented, more than 30
people paid into the system for every person receiving a benefit. The ratio is
now around 3 to 1. These types of wealth transfer programs cannot be sustained.
Socialism works until you run out of other people's money.There were good reasons to oppose Social
Security. If the law had mandated that people should be forced to save a
certain amount of their income for retirement, that would have been one thing.
It would have been wrong, but it would be much different from the system we
have today. Social Security was more than just a forced savings plan……To Read More…..

by Dick Morris, former political advisor to President Bill ClintonIf you happen to see the Bill
Clinton five minute TV ad for Hillary in which he introduces the commercial by
saying that he wants to share some things we may not know about Hillary's
background . .beware! As I was there
for most of their presidency and know them better than just about anyone, I
offer a few corrections;…..To Read More…..

My Take -Normally I'm not fond of linking anything Morris
says. I have found two things about Morris that I think are largely true. His
predictions turn out to be a load of HooHaw a big part of the time, and
secondly, he seems to be accurate about the events he lived. I'm inclined to
think this is one such occurrence, and worth the time.

The Daily Caller has an interesting story about
race-conscious provisions and racial preferences contained in Obamacare.
It’s a subject that has received remarkably little attention, even though the
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights concluded back in 2009 that the healthcare bill
was racially discriminatory, in two
ways. First, the law is filled with “sections that factor
in race when awarding billions in contracts, scholarships and grants” and give
“preferential treatment to minority students for scholarships.” Second, as an
African-American member of the Commission noted, it ”creates separate and
unequal operating standards for long-term care facilities that serve racial and
ethnic minorities.” By granting HHS “the discretion to waive substantial
penalties . . . for failing to report elder abuse and other crimes committed
against residents of long-term care facilities that serve racial and ethnic
minorities,” it ”could increase the probability that residents of such
facilities won’t receive the same level of protection as residents of nursing
homes that serve non-minority populations.”…….To Read More….

What kind of camaraderie, cooperation or friendship can endure in an
environment where constant snooping on one's closest friends is accepted
practice?

My Take – The logical foundation for his arguments
are based on the assumption that no one out there is doing harm….they’re our
friends.America has no friends, merely
temporary associates working toward some goal or other.Tomorrow they could just as well be ….well…..
France!One of the things I find
interesting are those who decry the use of spying, but demand to know why the
FBI, CIA, or NSA didn’t warn society of some eminent threat.Spying is now, and has always been, about bad manners and inappropriate moral
conduct. Reading other people’s mail,
stealing their secrets….and far worse.You
can’t have it both ways; good moral conduct and good intelligence.

That’s what spies do! They deal in dirt,
and anyone who involves themself in such activity must know that in order to be
successful at ‘dealing in dirt’.Dealing
in dirt requires one to detach themself from the normal morality they live by
in their daily lives. But…you can’t have it both ways; good moral conduct and
good intelligence.

One more thing!The mentality of all security people is
singular in this way.If someone has a
secret it must be important.If it’s
important enough to them to make it a secret, we want to know what it is.It might be important to us. So, now what exactly is it you want from them?
Only spy on those who deserve it!Well,
that could be anyone.

One more, one more thing!Is there any person in the world who believes
these hypocrites whining about being monitored would pass up the opportunity to
listen in on Obama’s phone conversations? If you want to find fault with these
spies for being bad Christians, then there’s no argument against that.However, if you want to find fault with them
for being good spies, then you have a problem in logic.

Between two-thirds and three-quarters of federal spending, in contravention of
the U.S. Constitution, can be described as Congress taking the earnings or
property of one American to give to another, to whom it does not belong. Let's
look at a few of these entitlements.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The slaughter of twenty-some innocents at Sandy Hook sent shock waves through the nation. The thought of these young lives snuffed out by a “crazy man” was more than the nation’s conscience could bear. A national outcry was heard to protect our young children. The media went into overdrive to ferret out every detail of the killer’s life, the victims’ lives, and the mother of the shooter’s life and to start the blame game.

However, in the year since this hideous crime, there has been a more horrendous crime going on every day. There have been approximately 1.2 million innocents slaughtered and you don’t hear a word on the news or any protests about it. That is the number of abortions in an average year in America. Think of it, 1.2 million innocents who haven’t even had a chance to be born are slaughtered for “convenience”.
Where is the compassion for these tiny lives being snuffed out even before they take their first breath? Are they “less human” because they haven’t been born yet? I don’t think so. They carry the same genetic code as all of us do. Even if they cannot live outside their mother’s womb, they still share our humanity. Is it morally acceptable to trade their lives for our “pleasure”?
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By
Michael D. Shaw, Contributing Columnist - HealthNewsDigest.com Jul 19, 2009 Some good news has just come out about phthalates, but let's delve into a bit
of history first.Interest in studying the possible deleterious effects of phthalates—and many
other compounds—was heightened in light of the so-called Wingspread Consensus
Statement, issued in July, 1991. This statement was the highlight of a
three-day conference in which a multidisciplinary group of scientists met to
discuss the impact of many chemicals (man-made and otherwise) on wildlife
populations as well as on humans."Wingspread" comes from the name of the conference center, which
hosted the meeting, in Racine, Wisconsin. It was at this conference that the
term "Endocrine Disruptor" was introduced.The most widely accepted definition of this term came out of a 1996 European
workshop, held in the beach town of Weymouth, England: "An endocrine
disruptor is an exogenous substance that causes adverse health effects in an
intact organism, or its progeny, secondary to changes in endocrine
function." Based on the ready availability of research funding (EPA's Office of Research
and Development alone has spent approximately $80 million on endocrine research
since 1999) thousands of studies related to endocrine disruptors (ED) have
appeared in the last ten years. And, owing to the relatively recent concept of
science by press release, certain sensationalistic findings were touted by an
over-eager mainstream media, and fast-tracked into government policy.For example, many scientists argued that the high dosages of ED compounds used
in lab studies were not representative of environmental levels, and thus
violated the basic concept "The dose makes the poison." ED proponents
posited that a synergistic effect (the whole being greater than the sum of its
parts) based on numerous ED compounds in the environment would make low doses
far more significant. Thus, ED synergism became their holy grail.In 1996, Arnold et al. published a paper in Science entitled
"Synergistic activation of estrogen receptor with combinations of
environmental chemicals," that seemed to prove this concept, and was a big
factor behind the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996. Stirring the pot was
millions of dollars from the W. Alton Jones Foundation, which helped promote
the book Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence,
and Survival?, an early advocate of Endocrine Disruptor Armageddon. Steven Arnold's findings were surely dramatic. His work proclaimed that certain
environmental chemicals that have a weak estrogenic activity when acting alone
were up to 1,000 times more potent in mimicking estrogen when tested in
combination. However, there was one little problem with his results. No one else could
replicate them. He was staunchly defended at first by the paper's senior author
John McLachlan, but by August 1997, the paper was retracted.According to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Research
Integrity, Arnold intentionally falsified the research results reported in the Science
paper, and later provided falsified and fabricated materials to investigating
officials. Arnold entered into a voluntary agreement with the U.S. Public
Health Service in which he agreed to exclude himself, for a period of five
years, from involvement in any government research. During discussions about
the agreement, Arnold conceded that there were no original data or other
corroborating evidence to support the conclusions reported in the Science
paper.Based on the Arnold travesty and other related scientific miscues, which seem
to plague this area of research, the International Union of Pure and Applied
Chemistry stated in a November, 2002 symposium...

Failures in the past to provide
full and complete data sets for scientific expert panel analysis cannot be
perpetuated, because such actions impact the integrity and credibility of the
research. Furthermore, the risk management implications of low dose effects are
potentially substantial and warrant careful scientific replication. Although
the human and ecological consequences of ED may not be as universal as some
have feared, there are sufficient examples and biological plausibility to leave
little basis for complacency in the research community.

Of course, the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996, and untold billions spent
in questionable testing and regulatory activity are still with us.

Getting back to phthalates, researcher Robert Benson—in a breakthrough study
published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology—examined animal data
and reconciled that with human exposure figures, to come up with a true human
risk assessment. That is, he looked at human exposure (in the US and Germany)
to all the phthalates that have been implicated in bad rodent effects to see how
this stacks up with EPA guidelines—replete with their enormous built-in safety
factors.

Benson concludes:

A Hazard Index of less than 1
means that there is little probability that an adverse effect might be observed
from the exposure to the chemicals. As can be seen from the results...the
Hazard Index for the median, 95 percentile, and maximum exposed individual are
equal to or less than 1. Thus, it is unlikely that humans are suffering adverse
developmental effects from current environmental exposure to these phthalate
esters.

Given that phthalates have been used for decades with no apparent ill effects
on a cohort of hundreds of millions of humans, mere observation might have
brought us to the same point. That's why many scientists mock endocrine disruptor
fears as a conclusion in search of data.

What has been going on in
Greece over the past six years since they ran out of money to borrow. We're
headed there next; this is how bad it is going to get!The country of
Greece is in catastrophic economic chaos due to a history of irresponsible
spending. This is where the U.S. will be in few years unless drastic changes
are made. The question is no longer if, but when. At some point, there will no
longer be any low-interest credit available to continue letting Santa Claus run
the U.S.; the interest owed on existing debt will exceed tax revenues…..To ReadMore…..

This is a disturbing story about the abuse of the power of journalism
and the trust of the public by one of the most, if not the most, influential
food writers in the world.

Michael Pollan is a big deal, arguably more
influential on agriculture policy than the Secretary of Agriculture. He is the
author of five books, all best sellers, professor of journalism at the
University of California-Berkeley and one of the most cited commentators on
food related issues in the world, with more than 330,000 followers on Twitter,
many of whom consider him a hero. Although the public perception of him is just
the opposite, he is not a reputable science journalist or—by his own admission—an
objective reporter—on organics or agriculture. Even more startling, Pollan
admits—brags even—that he manipulates high profile stories on organics and crop
biotechnology, particularly at the New York Times—and that the papers
editors are willing dupes.

These are strong allegations, but they are
not mine; they are Pollan’s own words. Read on......To Read More.....

I was in
Amsterdam for probably three hours when I began to see that having children and
not being married was not a big deal there. In fact, marriage itself is not a
big deal there. I was there to talk about my book In Praise of Messy Lives, which was coming out in
Dutch, but what passes in America for a messy life is in Amsterdam just, well,
how things go.

The Dutch
attitude, which I like, is that marriage is not for everyone; it is a personal
choice, an option, a pleasant possibility, but not marrying is not a
failure, a great blot on your achievements in life, a critical rite of passage
you have missed. Sometimes people get around to getting married, and sometimes
they don’t. Several Dutch women in their 40s, with children and rich romantic
histories, tell me about marriage, “It just wasn’t something that mattered to
me.”….To Read More….

My Take– This
woman is a blithering idiot….over educated – under smart.Marriage and family is the absolutely most
profound foundation for a stable society.Its no wonder the EU is doomed….this is another reason….and we don’t
need help from the Dutch when it comes to being stupid….we have plenty of our
own blithering idiots….she’s one of them.
I wonder if the boys who stormed the beaches of Normandy would have done so if they could have seen the future?

His approval
ratings were already disastrous, but François Hollande is now confirmed as the most unpopular president
on record. A survey on Monday put his personal approval ratings at 26%, the
first time a president has dropped below 30% since presidential popularity
began to be measured by BVI polling agency. For voters across the political
spectrum it seems, poor Hollande can do no right. Here are 10 possible reasons
why it's all gone pear-shaped for the president.

1. The 75% tax
trap - 2. He has perfected the art of putting the cart before the horse
(otherwise known as getting his priorities wrong) - 3. Hating conflict is not
ideal when you're the president of France. - 4. He is indecisive. - 5. He
doesn't seem able to rein in his party factions.6. - He's too normal - 7. He has a weak prime
minister - 8. He lacks communication skills. - 9. He has stopped being himself.
- 10. He hasn't eased our existentialist angst.....To Read More...

My Take – Most of this is a load of hogwash.He’s failing because he’s a leftist.All the rest said here is an attempt to find
someone to blame other than blaming the French people themselves.They wanted a leftist that was going to take
them farther left than they were already, and then were stunned when he acted
like a leftist.Now he’s just not fun
anymore.Baloney!Another reason why the EU is doomed!

A few weeks ago, when French Jewish actor Elie Semoun was
a prime-time guest on one of the main French television channels, Canal Plus,
the words of Sebastian Thoen, a standup comedian who introduced him may have
been meant to be to be laudatory, but took quite a different turn: "You
never plunged into communitarianism [Jewish activism] ... You could have posted
yourself in the street selling jeans and diamonds from the back of a minivan,
saying 'Israel is always right, f*** Palestine, wallala.' You show that
it is possible to be of the Jewish faith without being completely
disgusting.

Semoun was obviously ill-at-ease, but did not react. A
couple hours after the show, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions
of France (CRIF) issued a statement
denouncing a "dangerous trivialization of anti-Semitism." The
President of the TV channel responded by saying that the Jewish community had
"no sense of humor." The incident occurred, however, in a context
where the French Jewish community has no reason to have a sense of humor.

At the end of 2012, Jewish France was republished. The
book is a tirade of extreme anti-Semitism, originally published in 1886 by the
author Edouard Drumont, and reprinted repeatedly until after World War II and
the fall of the Vichy regime…...Seven decades after Auschwitz, the oldest hatred is slowly regaining its place on the continent, and it is no laughing matter...…To Read More…

My Take -Another reason why the EU is doomed. Its level of self righteous, and arrogant hypocrisy! Leftists slugs are the same the world over. Here we call them 'journalists'.

My son Antonio
just turned 21 years old, and I’m worried. Not only is his generation of young
Italians grappling with the longest economic slump in modern times, but they
also have to deal with us, their fathers and mothers.

I’ve taken to
calling us the Generazione Pitone, the Python Generation. We refuse to give
ground, and instead slither forward and ingest everything in our path. We have
stamina. We are selfish. We have a soundtrack (that’s why Bruce Springsteen is
still touring). And now that we’re getting old and retiring, we cost plenty.

America’s baby
boomers are not alone in the world. Every Western country produced a
substantial postwar generation that has no intention of stepping aside. But
Italy is special. Old-age pensions swallow 14 percent of the country’s gross
domestic product and 57 percent of all social spending. No other country in
Europe spends so much on making its past comfortable……To Read More….

The
modern Fordist paradises of the industrial world have seen their birthrates
crater to the point that mass immigration is the only thing that can keep their
economies staffed. This is riskier than it looks. The industrialized West is
undertaking a historic experiment in real time: by allowing and even
encouraging mass immigration from countries with vastly different cultural
foundations, Western societies are testing whether people with deep cultural
roots and few if any common loyalties can build cohesive and coherent societies
in the 21st century.....To Read More.....

My Take - If you have wondered why the EU is going
to collapse this article helps to explain the overwhelming problems of creating
a united Europe...and it ain't gonna change. As for the danger this represents
to the U.S.; we need to understand the difference between the mass migration
from Europe to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and
the kind of migration that is now being encouraged.The real danger for
society in all of this is the day society will have to pay dearly for all of
these terrible decisions by these 'leftist' leaders of western societies. That day is on the
horizon. In Europe it seems to me at some point there is going to be civil war
and ethnic cleansing everywhere. If Europe's economy fails further what is
happening in Greece will be common place all over Europe and worse. And it will
spread!

About Me

Green is a mixture of blue and yellow. That is the only factual definition of green that will stand the test of time. After that; any other definition is a corruption of a perfectly nice color. I have been an exterminator for 35 years. I have served as a trustee on industry association boards representing pesticide and fertilizer applicators actively for almost 25 years. I believe that what we do isn't just a job; it's a mission! We are that thin gray line that mans the wall telling the world; "no one will harm you on my watch". I also believe that to be green is to be irrational, misanthropic and morally defective. They are the barbarians at the gate we have to stand against. Our greatest worry is those within who support and facilitate their misanthropic goals.